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H. MALTBY.

JACKET FOR CHILDREN.

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- UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HORACE MALTBY, OF STAPLETON, NEW YORK.

JACKET FOR CHILDREN.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 353,796, dated December 7, 1886.

Application filed August 18, 1886. Serial No. 2l1,l82. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Honircn MALTBY, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Stapleton, in the county of Rich m ond and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in a Jacket or Sailor Blouse for Children, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the ac companying drawings, forming part thereof.

This invention relates to a new method of suspending childrens pants. Hcretofore such pants have been suspended either by suspenders or on a garment known as a shirtwaist. During hot weather children are consequently allowed to go about in pants and shirt-waists, because to put an additional garmentsuch as a jacketover the waist would overheat them. The pants suspended by the shirt-waist gives an undressed and unsatisfactory appearance. By reason of my improvement, the pants being suspended upon thejacket or blousc,there is no double garment orshirtwaist required. This is a saving in one garment as well as a comfort to the child in hot weather. The pants being suspended on the jacket by reason ol'my improvement, thejacket may be in the form of a tail or body coat or of a sailor s blouse. There is further an elastic connection between the jacket and the pants, which permits of greater ease in stooping, climbing stairs, &c., thereby preventing the bursting of button-holes or the tearing off of buttons.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a view of the inside of a boys jacket towhich my invention is applied. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal cross-section taken in the line at x of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a View of the same garment, only made in the form of a sailors blouse, the sectional view 40 being the same as is shown in Fig. 2.

a is the back of thejacket.

b bis a band or belt extending across the jacket on the inside at about the height Where the top of the pants is usually buttoned onto the shirt-waist, where a shirt-waist is worn. The belt is sewed at each end of the jacket a short distance to secure it properly thereto against the strain of the pantaloons, and left unsecured the remainder of the distance.

0 c c are buttons fastened to this belt to which the pants are secured. It will be evident from this construction that the lower part of the jacket, d, covers the connection between the jacket and the pants, even if this lower portion, d, is constructed so as to form a sailors blouse by securing its lower edge all the way around to the inside of the upper edge of the band I) b, as shown in Fig. 3 at e e.

ff are elastic straps connected to the inside of the jacket at g 9, extending down to the middle of the belt I) and being secured thereto at h h. The belt being secured to the back of thejacket, it is evident that the strain of the pants in the bending over of the child will be brought 011 these elastic straps ff, and thereby cause a slight downward movement of the belt b,which will save the buttons and buttonholes from being subjected to a sudden strain and consequent rupture.

I claim- A new article of manufacture consisting of a childs jacket or sailors blouse, having the following elements-namely, a belt to which the pants are to be attached in the ordinary manner, secured at its ends to the inside of the jacket, and elastic straps connecting such belt with the jacket, substantially as described HORACE MALTBY.

Witnesses:

RoBT. H. MARSHALL, PATK. DUNN. 

